AN: Hey all, so the response has continued to be brilliant for this story, so much so that I got this chapter out earlier than I was expecting. The reivews so far have been brilliant, I'm sorry I've not had a chance to reply to many of them, as unforuntetly I have not had a huge amount of free time, and the time I do have I have been puttin gtowards writing and other commitments. I am hoping to go back through them this week though and provide answers to the questions asked, or at least where I can do so without spoiling things.
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(Last Time)
"I think I'll leave you with a quote that my academy prides itself on! Go beyond! Plus Ultra! Now get out there you crazy kids, and have a great time!"
Izuku grinned as he heard that, his hands clenching into fists as he readied himself for the task ahead. Go beyond, he liked the sound of that, and it was exactly what he was going to do. He would take this opportunity and prove to all the teachers of U.A. that he had what it took to be a hero!
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On the front row of the stands, some fifty metres from where Izuku was sat, Katsuki Bakugo grinned fiercely. His red eyes gleaming with anticipation as he readied himself for the challenge ahead.
It was time, time for him to show the teachers of U.A. what he was made of!
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Chapter 3
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(With Izuku, Arena E)
Izuku couldn't help but grin in excitement as he looked over at the large, and apparently fake, city district in front of him.
This was it, the last exam, the last hurdle, before he could enter U.A. and begin his journey to becoming a hero.
Looking out over the arena, Izuku could only shake his head in awe. The fake city district was huge. It must be a mile square block of buildings and roads, it was pretty damn impressive. It was incredibly realistic too. To Izuku's eyes it looked almost as if he were looking at an actual, admittedly quiet, city district on the outskirts of Tokyo.
Honestly, the amount of time, money and resources that must have gone into its construction had to have been phenomenal. The city block must be a least a mile wide and another mile deep, with numerous large tower blocks dotted throughout it, and apartment blocks, hundreds of narrow streets and roads.
The entire thing looked like it had just been lifted from a real city, hell it even had a few cars dotted around the roads, as well as working lamp posts, and what looked like bus stops and fire hydrants.
It would be both a very fun place, a very hard place, to fight in, and to hunt robot enemies in.
"Oh wow! This place is huge, isn't Izuku? Actually it might be too big, I mean come on it's massive isn't it, I mean it so big I don't even know how in hell we are going to find any of those robot things!?" Mina rattled off rapidly, her eyes shining brightly as she blathered away, from her position next to him, her head twisting this way and that as she tried to take it all in.
With the pink skinned girl having not quite overcome her awe at the replica city. That said though, despite her enthusiasm the bubbly girl was still able to focus on the task to come, enough so that she had been able work out the possible issues they might have finding robots in a place that both that large, and with that many narrow roads.
Izuku didn't answer at first, instead he continued to stare out at the arena, just as the other candidates around him did. This was a damn sight more impressive than the training facilities he had been allowed to use in Asphodel.
"Yeah it's big, it must have been pretty expensive to build too. It kind of makes feel bad though. I mean it's probably going to be wrecked in the exam!" Izuku said bluntly, looking around at the hundred or so students surrounding him as he did so. After all with people freely using their Quirks to take down and fight the robots in the city district, well there would inevitably be a lot of destruction.
Mina rolled her eyes as she heard that, and looked over at Izuku, and amused expression on her face. "I think the general idea is that you try not to destroy the city, I don't think trashing things would be seen as being very heroic."
"It would probably be much easier though." Izuku muttered, scuffing one of his feet along the floor as he did so.
Already he could imagine just how much easier this would be if he took on his Titan form and rampaged through the city, like he had back on that night, but in a far more controlled, deliberate and methodical manner.
Unfortunately though, as he knew from experience, such a tactic would lead to a lot of destruction, and might even endanger the other students due to falling debris. Such a thing was not acceptable, not when he was trying to be a hero, and to prove the naysayers that he was in control of his Quirk, and that he wasn't a danger anymore.
He already had seen video footage from the night he had first taken his Titan form. He had seen one city district burn. He didn't want to see another one do the same due to him, even a fake one like the arena before them.
"Yeah I can see what you mean, it would be so much easier for people like you, you know those guys with flashy Quirks, if you just went all out and destroyed stuff. But it would be a pain for the rest of us." Mina replied, her smile dimming slightly as she did so. "I just wish my Quirk had a bit more power to it! My Quirk is good and all, but there is only so much acid I can create and throw around."
"That's not a bad thing. It just means you'll need to fight smart at times when you can't just rely on brute power." Izuku replied dryly, "Plus I reckon the U.A. staff took things like that into account when planning the exam. It's probably why they stuck it in a city to begin with. I mean we are more likely to be fighting villains in built up areas than in opens spaces. So this is probably just seeing how we do fighting in enclosed spaces. They probably want to see how we can adapt, and whether we learn how to do it without creating too much collateral damage."
"Yeah that makes sense!" Mina nodded, a bright smile once again on her face as she glanced over at the taller, green haired teen. "So anyway Midoriya, do you fancy sticking together in there, you know work together to take down as many as possible?"
"Thanks for the offer, but I think sticking together would probably make it harder for both of us to rack up the big points. I mean it'll probably be easier for both of us if we split up, that way we won't be stealing one another points, or accidently getting in each other's way." Izuku replied awkwardly, he liked Mina and didn't want to offend her or push her away, at the same time though he didn't think working together in an exam like this would be that good of an idea.
"Oh yeah of course, that makes sense!" Mina grinned, rubbing the back of her head as she did so. "I guess I didn't think that through properly!"
"It's cool, I reckon the two of us would be great if we did work together though. Who knows, maybe if we both get into the Academy we could get the chance in one of the training session!" Izuku smiled. Inwardly he was pretty glad he hadn't pushed the friendly pink skinned girl away with his refusal.
"Definitely!" Mina grinned brightly.
Izuku smiled back at that, even as he turned and looked around at the rest of the applicants. There were quite a lot of them, all of them wearing tracksuits, like that Iida kid, or homemade costumes. It kind of made Izuku feel a little unprepared, after all he was just wearing trainers, sweatpants, a baggy, plain purple shirt and black water proof jacket.
Hardly the most suitable of clothing.
Unfortunately though they were the clothes he had been given upon leaving Asphodel, and thus they were the only clothes he owned at the moment. After all he hadn't had the chance to go clothes shopping yet, or even food shopping for that matter.
It was on his list of things to do after the exam though. Plus, fortunately his monthly bursary from the government had come in last night, so he could actually afford to splurge a little on the essentials, as well as to pay the rent at the apartment he had been set up at.
Shaking his head as such mundane thoughts besieged him, Izuku instead focused on the task at hand. He was here at U.A., about to take an exam, and surrounded by nearly a hundred teens, all of whom were prospective students, and all of whom had unique, powerful and flashy Quirks.
He could think about his chores later, for now it was time for him to do what he did best, and geek out!
With that in mind, he quickly began to look around at all of the other students, trying to scope out what their Quirks were, and how they could be used.
Already he could see quite a few interesting Quirks from just a first glance.
Just a dozen feet to his left there was a pretty girl with short black hair, piercing dark eyes and what looked like wires, almost like earphone jacks, coming down from her ear lobes.
A few feet away from her he could see another teen, only this one's body seemed to be completely made out of metal.
Plus there was another girl, also very pretty, who had green, literally, vine like hair, and delicate almost angelic features, as well as a body to die for.
Izuku shook his head at that last thought, and instead tried to get his mind back on the matter at hand and away from distracting thoughts about girls. This of course wasn't helped by his new friend, Mina, the attractive, yet exotic looking girl having just started doing some rather provocative stretches as she prepared for the exam to start.
Dammit, his less than normal upbringing at a juvenile detention centre, had not equipped him for situations like this.
Closing his eyes Izuku began to go through some breathing exercise, first inhaling deeply and then exhaling. Starting to mentally prepare himself for the challenge to come, the silvery blue sheen once again covering his hands as he forced the images of all the attractive and striking girls out of his mind, and focused on the exam.
Already he could feel the strength and power flowing through his limbs, just below his skin.
Clenching his hands into fists, Izuku let out a deep breath, hot steam erupting from his mouth, even as wisps of it began to flow off of his body.
From beside him he saw Mina send him a surprised look, no doubt the stretching girl had just notice that the ambient temperature in the area around him had just raised several degrees.
It was a side effect of his Quirk, it was almost like his body started overheating when he started using the strength and regeneration part of his Quirk, and thus released that heat outwardly in order to cool him down.
It was far worse in his Titan form.
In fact the steam that emanated off of him when he was stood still and his Titan form was so hot that prolonged contact with it could scold people's flesh. Even now he could remember seeing a lobster pink doctor dancing around in pain after he had gotten to close to Izuku whilst he was in his Titan form.
Letting out another breath, and another hiss of steam, Izuku felt his muscles tighten and his strength grow as he drew on his Quirk, not taking on his Titan form, but dancing around the cusp of doing so, his knuckles cracking as he clenched his fists tighter.
He was ready for this!
"OK EVERYBODY START!" The voice of Present Mic suddenly rang out, drawing everybody's attention to where the Pro Hero was standing on a nearby observation tower. All of the candidates around Izuku looking at one another in confusion, before looking back to Present Mic, and waiting for him to continue.
Before anyone could ask though the Pro Hero just laughed before yelling out again so all the participants could hear. "Well come on then, what are you waiting for?! There isn't a countdown in a real battle, you greenhorns, get those legs moving!"
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(A few moments later)
There was a sudden silence after Present Mic made his announcement, all of the prospective students pausing for a moment as what the Pro Hero just said slowly filtered through their minds.
Izuku like the others paused as he heard what the eccentric man had said, but unlike the others he had already powered himself up and was ready to leap into action at a moment's notice. Which is exactly what he did.
With barely a thought Izuku bent his legs and exploded forwards, his arms and legs pumping as he rapidly propelled himself through the crowd of waiting students. Izuku literally leaping over several confused students as he entered the replica city district.
The first in his group to do so, which also gave him the advantage of being able to engage he enemy first and get in a few kills before the rest of the panicking students cocked onto what was happening and caught up with him.
Not pausing for a second once he entered the city, Izuku continued moving, eating up the distance as he pumped his enhanced muscles. Ignoring as he did so, the shouts and exclamations coming from behind him as the other students all caught onto what was happening.
He would not let them distract him from his goal.
Rushing through the streets Izuku soon caught up to the first faux-villain. A big bulky robot with four legs and what looked like two Gatling guns for arms.
Not that this gave Izuku pause, as with his healing factor he could easily tank a shower of bullets without issue. On top of which his enhanced strength fed into his speed, meaning that he was far faster than an average human, fast enough to, not outrun a bullet, but to quickly react when if he saw a gun training in on him.
Not that Izuku was going to give the robot a chance to fire on him of course.
No because that would be stupid.
With that in mind he continued forward, his right hand drawn back, and his fist glowing a slivery blue colour, as with grunt he lashed out at the robot as he passed by. His technique for the punch was perfect, and his timing was one point. But for the moment he was relying on hit and run tactics, one punch should be enough to take out one of these robots, after all, with them being robots he didn't have to hold back on the strength of his punches.
With a grinding of metal on metal the robot quickly turned to face Izuku as he rushed it, its Gatling guns already beginning to spin as it prepared to fire.
Before the robot could get off even one shot though, Izuku was in front of it. His blurring forwards, before with the sound of shattering metal he cleaved right through it, his fist smashing through the front of its chest and out the other side in an explosive of broken metal and circuit boards.
"That's three points." Izuku muttered to himself as he literally ran through the destroyed three pointer robot, ignoring the shrapnel that rained down all around him as he did so.
"And soon another three!" Izuku continued with a grin as he thundered forward into another three point robot, his hardened fist lashing out again and he decimated this robot too, not even break step as he continued forward.
Continuing on through the rubble, Izuku headed towards the centre of the city, where he guessed most of the robots would be gathered, destroying any robot that got into his immediate path as he did so. Like he had though, with how weak his opponents were, and the fact he didn't have to hold back, he only needed a single enhanced punch to destroy them, even the three pointers.
Letting out another breath, and a hiss of steam, he then continued to thunder through the city. A determined expression on his face as he darted from robot to robot, occasionally passing another competitor as he weaved through the narrow streets, using his enhanced strength to leap forwards as much as ten feet at a time.
Already he knew that he was quickly racking up the points. From his count he had gotten nearly fifty points by the time ten minutes of the fifteen minute exam had passed, and he still had another five to go.
A another minute or so passed, with Izuku leaping through the street, occasionally using the sides of buildings as a platform to leap off of as he shot through the narrow streets, looking for foes.
It was as he was doing this however, that he found himself faced with a problem, which is to say he was finding it hard, to well, find the enemy, as the more time passed the less robots seemed to be left, Izuku and the other students having vastly whittled down their number.
This had turned into a bit of a problem for Izuku. Like he had thought, an area the size of the arena, was making things difficult, especially with the hundreds of narrow streets and all of the competition he was facing.
On top of which his Quirk was no help to him in this situation.
He had no way of scoping out or finding the enemy, save for doing it the old fashioned way, which is to say by using his enhanced physical attributes to cover as much ground as he could as fast as he could. His green eyes flicking this way and that as he dodged around other candidates, severed around corners, and occasionally took to the roofs of buildings, as he determinedly tried to find more robots to destroy.
"Hey that one was mine!" A kid suddenly shouted out, the boy in question being very short with what looked like purple balls on his head instead of hair. His voice somewhat lispy and his face petulant as he scowled over at Izuku. Clearly the kid was irritated that he had just dropped from the sky and landed feet first on a one point robot that had been about to attack the other kid from behind.
"Sorry, I thought you hadn't seen it." Izuku replied sheepishly as he glanced down at the shattered remains of the robot under his feet. He kind of felt guilt now, after all if the other boy had known it was there, then that meant he had effectively stolen his kill.
Not that Izuku felt too bad about it, this was a competitive process, an exam, after all.
With that thought in mind, Izuku, ignored the kid and instead ran forward and leapt again, pushing off of a nearby building, and propelling himself to another as he did so. He didn't have the time to feel sorry for, or worry about, another applicant.
Not when there was still time on the clock.
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(A few minutes later)
"Hey Midoriya how are you doing?!" The cheerful voice of Mina called out a few minutes later, a smile on her face as she turned from a half dissolved robot and instead grinned at Izuku. Her golden eyes twinkling, as she saw the green haired teen leap from a roof top and crash into the ground a few feet from her, the concrete under his feet cracking as he did so, even as steam continued to flow off of his body.
"Yeah not too bad!" Izuku replied as he scanned the area, seeing only shattered robot parts and broken buildings around him. "How about you, been having any trouble?"
Mina shrugged in response, her smile dimming for the first time since he met her. "Yeah I've got around thirty eight points so far, I would have had more but I ended up helping out a few other students who got themselves into trouble. It wasted a bit of time which is annoying, but I reckon I would have felt pretty shitty if I hadn't helped out."
Izuku nodded at that. He understood exactly what she meant, as earlier on in the test he had noticed a lot of wannabe heroes running off into the city. Some of them having no strategy in mind as they just looked for as many robots as they could, even if it meant getting trapped in a narrow alley and putting themselves in danger.
Izuku had also ended up helping a couple of other applicants out as he passed, but not without reason, after all by destroying the robots attacking them he had been able to rack up even more points.
It was a mutually beneficial arrangement. He helped them out, and stopped them from being hurt or taken out of the exam, and in return he got villain points. It was sort of like they were the bait, and he was a helpful predator.
"There's still time, besides I am sure they will notice how you helped other people." Izuku replied with a smile, trying to buoy the girl up.
Plus he didn't think that the test would be as cut and dry as kill this amount of robots and you passed, there were bound to be other factors. Lateral thinking that was what Doctor Nakamura had always tried to ingrain into him. Don't take things as just black and white, and don't just take things as they seem on the outside.
"Yeah, definitely." Mina replied with a grin, the bubbly pink skinned girl not staying down for long. "How many have you got?"
"I've got fifty nine at the moment, I just need one more." Izuku replied as he looked around, scanning the area for more robots as he did so.
"I've got my work cut out for me then!" Mina replied with a competitive grin at Izuku, not at all concerned with the fact his score was higher than hers at the moment, as she instead turned and ran forwards.
As she did so, Izuku, could only watch as she sent out a spray of acid in front of her, soaking the ground in front of her, even as she used the acid to increase her speed as she slid along the concrete.
"Hey wait!" Izuku shouted in response as he turned around and leapt after her, the concrete beneath his feet cracking as he erupted from ma cloud of steam, and clambered up the side of a building, his hardened fingers gouging into the concrete and bricks walls as he climbed up the side of the tall building like a giant, human sized spider, before he then pushed off of it, leaping to another building and then again.
His method of travel not only allowing him to negotiate the streets without tripping over all of his other competitors that were milling down below, but it gave him more of an aerial, which made searching for robot foes easier.
Continuing on through the city, Izuku, grinned as he saw Mina shooting ahead of him, the pink haired girl easily destroying two, one point, robots in a single sweep as she unleashed a spray of corrosive acid.
Nodding his head at that Izuku landed on the side of a tower block, his fingers digging grooves into the side of the wall as he began to crawl up it, using his heightened strength and hardened skin to dig himself handholds.
"TWO MINUTES REMAINING!" The voice of Present Mic suddenly rang out. The sound of his voice, amplified as it was through his Quirk, being easily audible in all of the arenas and for all of the students taking their exams.
Narrowing his eyes as he heard that, Izuku then leapt off the building. His sharp eyes narrowing as he saw a two point robot in the street below, the medium sized faux-villain weaving between the rubble and its destroyed counterparts as it headed down the street to where a small melee was taking place between the squabbling students and the remaining robots.
Landing on the ground with a crunch Izuku had to hold back a wince, pushing back the sudden flare of pain he felt in his knees as he rolled forwards, his healing factor was already taking care of it.
Gritting his teeth, Izuku, then ducked under the robot's swinging arm, before lunging forward his hand gripping onto the bot's face as he followed through with the momentum, knocking the robot over before he then slammed its metallic head into the concrete. His hardened hand shattering the robots head against the asphalt road beneath him.
With that done, Izuku stood up straight, a few small cuts on his face, caused by shards of metal from the destroyed robot, healing up rapidly in small wisps of steam.
"Not enough, not yet." Izuku muttered to himself, allowing the silvery blue sheen to leave his hands. His eye twitching a bit as he saw his red raw hands, even as his regeneration began to heal the burns.
Another side effect of his Quirk unfortunately. When he used his hardening ability, he was effectively sealing the skin he covered, which in turn stopped the heat from naturally leaving those parts of his body. This, unfortunately, had the side effect of him hurting himself if he hardened parts of his body for prolonged periods of time, whilst also using the strength part of his Quirk.
Blowing on his injured hands, Izuku, smiled grimly as he saw fresh, healthy skin form as the burns rapidly healed.
Thank goodness for his healing factor, he didn't know what he would do without it.
Pushing that thought aside for now Izuku instead took off again, his muscles once again burning, even as he hardened both of his hands again, and half of his forearms.
He only had a minute or so left. He needed to push himself, and go beyond!
Within moments he found himself at intersection, his teeth clenching into a grimace as he looked around and saw how the area was crawling with both robots, and a desperate mass of students trying to finish them off.
It was a chaotic melee.
Surveying the area, Izuku, saw Mina slipping and sliding here and there as she used her mobility and speed to deliberately steal kills from other prospective students.
Apparently honour and integrity meant nothing at this point in the exam.
It was truly dog eat dog now!
Glancing over he also saw the green haired girl from before using her vine like hair to lash out, corral, bind and then disable three robots at the same time. Her previously waist length hair having extended to nearly three metres by this point, even as it shifted around autonomously; protecting the girl, fending off the applicants and attacking the robots, all at the same time.
"That's fifty five!" The green haired girl muttered to herself, from not too far away, not even looking at any of the other applicants as she instead kept her mind on the task at hand and continued looking for more opponents.
"Haha! Forty six!" Mina shouted gleefully as she also slid passed, Izuku, more acid spraying out of her hands as she rapidly began to encircle and dissolve a lone one pointer.
Shifting his head, Izuku, noticed Tenya Iida rushing passed him too, the taller teen's arms pumping in an exaggerated manner as he rushed forwards and then launched a brutal kick at the head of a two pointer. With what looked like exhausts in his calf spitting out fire as he did so, adding extra power to the kick as he then proceeded to destroy his foe with a single blow.
All around him other applicants were doing exactly the same, getting in one another's way and stealing each other's kills as they all scrambled to get those last few points before the exam ended.
Gritting his teeth, a look of absolute determination spread across Izuku's face, even as he lunged forward, hoping to get stuck in before all of the opponents were gone, and get stuck in he did, as within moments he had engaged a three pointers. His body twisting this way and that as he avoided a spray of gunfire from the robot, even as he closed in on it.
With the robot attempting to retreat as he did so, only for it to get stuck as one of its caterpillar tracks got stuck on a stick purple ball behind it.
Seeing this Izuku rushed forward, a silvery blue sheen covering the entirety of his right arm as he did so, even as he then close-lined the struggling robots, and cleaved it in two with a single roar of triumph.
"Dammit, you stole my kill again!" The same short boy as before shouted, his scalp noticeably bleeding as repeatedly grabbed and then threw the weird purple balls on his head at anything and everything that he could. His actions helping the other applicants around him out, probably more than they were helping him.
This chaos lasted for another minute or so, with Izuku being able to only destroy a few more robots before he, like all the other applicants, was distracted. Their attention drawn away from the few remaining robots and instead to the ground, which at that moment had begun to shake.
"What's going on?!" The girl with the vines for hair said, her features contorting in worry as she looked around nervously, searching for the source of the disturbance.
"It's the Zero Pointer!" A lispy voice suddenly shouted fearfully, gaining Izuku's attention as he looked over and saw the short boy he had seen before, looking up in terror.
Following the boy's gaze Izuku soon discovered why he was so scared.
After all, as he looked up a nearby tower block suddenly exploded, even as a massive robot made its presence known. The Zero Pointer robot standing closer forty five metres in height, and probably fifteen metres wide as it loomed over them, a towering mass of metal that cast all of the assembled students in shadow.
"That's way too big!" The small boy shouted, his eyes widening and beginning to water, before, without another word he turned and fled in terror.
Not that he was the only student to run, as all around Izuku he could see the other students all fleeing. All of them either running in fear, or running because there was literally no point in trying to fight the massive robot, after all the Zero Pointer was worth literally no points, as the name might suggest.
Turning, Izuku, made to do the same as the others and run away. Only for him to stop mid-turn as he heard a sudden scream sound out, followed by a loud cry for help.
"H-help!" The unfamiliar voice called out, the girl's words reaching Izuku even as he, like so many others, turned to run away. The fear and exhaustion in the voice making him freeze mid-step, before he turned around.
As he did so he immediately saw the person calling for help and the problem she had found herself in, even as dozens of others, including Iida ran passed him obliviously, all of them fleeing from the gargantuan robot.
There was a short, curvy, unfamiliar brunette on the ground at the Zero Pointer's feet. A look of fear and panic on her face as she desperately struggled to extricate herself from under some rubble that must have fallen on her when the Zero Pointer made its presence known and destroyed that building.
She was trapped, and she was scared.
Izuku took all this in in a second, even as he found his body reacting without him realising.
He was running again, but not away from the Zero Pointer, but instead at it. His mind was a whirl as it moved at a mile a minute, his green eyes flicking up at the colossal, lumbering robot, even as it bared down on the girl, its robotic arm raised as if it were about to strike.
He had to stop it.
Without a word he ran forward, his actions catching the attention of many of the other applicants that were running in the opposite direction, and of the girl herself, who despite having been able to extract herself from the rubble still looked to be unable to move due to her injuries.
"Look out!" The brunette called, reaching out to Izuku as he closed in on her. The giant Zeref Pointer behind her raising an arm as he did so, before moments later it threw a punch, but not at the girl, but at its new target, Izuku.
In response steam exploded off of Izuku's form, gusting out in all directions, even as moments later the robot's arm was caught. A large, tanned hand having caught the arm with ease, the massive fingers crushing metal, even as the rest of the giant's body emerged from the cloud of steam.
The being now stood before the Zero Pointer was close to thirty metres tall, his body completely bare, 'ken doll like', and covered in steaming, chiselled muscles.
Long, lank, greenish black hair hung down from the giant being's head, framing his angular face, with long pointed, elf like ears protruding from out of the locks. Even as his glowing, green eyes stared out, locking fiercely onto the Zero Pointer.
Standing up fully, Izuku, ignored the shouts and screams of shock echoing all around him, as he instead stood to his full height. The sound of screeching and buckling metal sounding out as the Zero Pointer tried to push forward, only to fail as the Titan pushed back.
Grinning fiercely as he succeeded in pushing the Zero pointer back, Izuku, opened his mouth and let loose another roar of challenge, the shockwave from his roar shattering the windows of nearby buildings, even as it sounded out for miles around.
It was a roar that stuck shock into the hearts of all those that heard it for the first time, and either; fear, anger, terror, or tension, into the hearts of those had had heard it before.
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(In the observation room)
The silence in the room became incredibly tense as Midoriya took on his Titan form. Several of the teachers standing up, with some of them looking like they wanted to head down there just in case Midoriya went on a rampage.
Most of the assembled teachers however remained calm. All of them watching the screens in front of them tensely, not saying a word as they focused on Midoriya, tense and ready to move if necessary, but still willing to give the teen a chance.
As for All Might, the previously skeletal blonde, had instinctively taken on his muscle form, beefing up from a lanky, skinny, ill looking man to a seven foot tall musclebound giant, his hands instinctively gripping the arms of his chair so tightly that, with a groan of metal, they buckled and broke.
"Nezu," All Might said tightly, his tense, glowing blue eyes locked on to the screen as he focused on Midoriya to the exclusion of all else.
He didn't fear the boy, nor was he scared of fighting him. He had fought the rampaging Titan before and come out the victor, and he knew that, even in his weakened state, he would be able to do so again if necessary.
No, he was not personally scared of Midoriya or his Quirk, or of fighting the teen.
Instead he was just incredibly nervous, bordering on scared, of having someone like him in U.A., and what the consequences of his presence might be.
If the boy lost control again, and in a school too. The damage he could wreak could be catastrophic.
The boy was too powerful, if he lost control, he could probably kill most of his class before any of the teachers had time to react, and there was probably nothing those students could do to defend themselves. Or at least not if his transformation took them by surprise.
Not only could this, if it came to pass, mean the deaths of dozens of students, it might also mean the end of U.A., on top of which it could cause irreparable harm to Hero society as whole. An entire generation of the countries' best and brightest being wiped out in a single moment by one of their classmates.
He couldn't even begin to imagine the true fallout from that.
Leaning forward in his chair, All Might, had to restrain his natural desire to leap down there and stop Midoriya.
Intellectually he knew what the Doctors said about the teen, and that the government had vouched for his control.
On top of which, Midoriya, was not the first troubled child to come to U.A., both Thirteen and Endeavour had had similar incidents to Midoriya in their youth, maybe not as well-known or destructive, but they had both hurt people as children. Despite that though they had been given a chance, and had both become remarkable heroes, in spite of their difficult histories.
But still, in spite of this, All Might, had faced the Titan and he had seen its fury and its power first hand. The entire fiasco had left a mark on him. Even now he could close his eyes and remember that night and everything that had happened in vivid, terrible detail.
Izuku Midoriya was dangerous, and as such he remained leery of allowing him into U.A.
"It's fine." Nezu spoke out, the small mouse like being's eyes locked on the monitor in front of him. "Just watch."
Around the room some of the teachers calmed down, a few though, including All Might, however, remained tense, even as they saw Midoriya rise to his full, and colossal height, his hand crushing the arm of the Zero Pointer, even as he pushed it back, and roared in fury.
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(Elsewhere)
Katsuki Bakugo froze, his eyes widening as he released a recently destroyed robot allowing it to fall to the floor with a crash as he instead stared off in the direction of that terribly familiar roar.
It was impossible, why would he be here, and why now?
Far off in the distance he could see smoke rising, even as the roar sounded out again. The bellow causing all those around Bakugo to also freeze up, most of them looking cautious or curiously off in the direction of the roar.
A lot of them didn't seem to realise its significance. Instead some just seemed to think it was part of the test, or that it was one of the other applicants in a different arena using their Quirks.
Bakugo knew differently and as he mastered his fear, his red eyes narrowed, even as small explosions began to erupt in the palms of his hands, his entire body tense as he stared at the pillar of steam in the distance. "Deku!"
There was one other in close proximity to, Bakugo, who also recognised the sound of the roar for what it was.
The boy's blue eyes narrowing, even as he grit his teeth in impotent rage. The blonde haired teen, looking over in the direction of the sound like the others. Fear warring with anger within him, even as he remembered his own experiences of that night.
He might not have lost any family members, but he had lost his home, and friends due to the events of that night.
"What the hell is Midoriya doing here?" Neito Monoma hissed, his blue eyes flashing with anger, and his hands clenching into fists. "How could a monster like him come to U.A.?"
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(Back with Izuku)
"I-It's the T-Titan!" Minoru Mineta stuttered, the short, teen with purple balls on his head, looking up in fear as he saw the colossal Titan looming over the area as it battled it out with the Zero Pointer.
He honestly didn't think he would ever see the Titan, the guy was infamous, even if the shock and feared that had been caused by the Night of Great Loss had faded over the years.
"T-That boy, he was Izuku Midoriya." Iida Tenya muttered, staring up at the gigantic teen in shock, worrying his lip with his teeth as he remembered his interaction with the green haired teen. That boy, the one he had gotten off to a bad start with, he was the Titan, Izuku Midoriya.
"Beautiful…" Ibara Shiozaki muttered, the green haired girl gazing up at the Titan's steam wreathed form even as he clashed with the Zero Pointer, battling it back through sheer brute strength.
She had of course heard of the Titan, and what he had done when he was just five years old. It was a terrible tragedy. But still he had been five, and was not the first child to lose control of his Quirk, he had just been one of the most public. If he was here, then that must mean he was now in control. That was her opinion on the matter at least, and an opinion that was like shared by many others.
All around the duo dozens of other applicants had stopped fleeing and instead stood watching in awe, shock and fear as the Titan forced the Zero Pointer back, before with another roar the giant being's other hand shot out, metal warping as he grabbed another part of the Zero Pointer, after which, with another roar he bodily lifted it off of the ground.
"Such power and raw strength!"
"Incredible"
"H-How c-can someone be that strong!"
"W-what is the Titan dong here!"
"Go on Midoriya, crush that tin can!"
The last voice belonged to Mina, and sounded out loudest of all. Several other voices joining her as she shouted support, even as Midoriya lifted the Zero Pointer clear off of the ground, and away from the injured brunette at his feet.
After which, with another roar he ripped the Zero Pointer clear in two, the sound of shattering, shrieking metal and explosions sounding out, even as he then threw both parts of the Zero Pointer to either side of him.
"Fucking hell, he ripped it in two, the guy literally ripped that thing in two!"
Throwing his head back, Izuku, let out one last roar whilst in his Titan form, before he vanished in another explosion of steam.
A now human sized Midoriya walking out of the thick cloud of steam, a conscious and pink faced, brunette in his arms, a few moments later..
The girl in question, Ochako Uraraka, looking utterly shell shocked as she tried to come to terms with everything that had happened. Her face and hands noticeably a little pink, and her tracksuit noticeably damp due to her proximity to the hot steam that had enshrouded Midoriya.
"T-thank you!" Ochako gasped out, not sure what else to say as Izuku continued to carry her, towards the crowd of gawping students, and away from the rubble of the fallen building and the wreckage of the destroyed Zero Pointer. Only for him to then gingerly put her down a few metres later.
"You're welcome." Izuku said softly, forcing a smile onto his face as he saw all the people looking at him. No one saying anything as everyone just seemed to stare at him in shock.
Right up until Mina broke that silence.
"Holy shit, that was so badass!" Mina shouted, dancing forwards and enthusiastically throwing her arm around Izuku's shoulders. Her words unleashing an avalanche of voices as some people shouted and cheered for him, whilst other asked whether he was really trying to get into U.A., with still others only just clocking onto who he was or staying back nervously, noticeably putting quite a bit of space between him and them.
Before Izuku could reply to any of the questions and accusation being thrown at him, he was interrupted by the sound of Present Mic's voice once again ringing out around the arena.
"AND THAT'S IT TIME'S UP!" Present Mic shouted, his voice sounding out through the arena and causing all action to come to a halt as the students either celebrated or commiserated depending on how well they think they did.
"Well that was fun." Izuku finally spoke up, as he looked over at Mina, sharing a smile with the pink skinned girl as she released him. Trying to ignore all the other people that were still looking at him as he did so. "How did you do in the end?"
"Forty seven points in the end, not quite sixty but I hope it's enough to pass!" Mina replied with a shrug as she looked away from Izuku and instead looked around the area her eyes widening slightly as she saw the shattered buildings, cratered streets and mounds of broken robots. "So much for not destroying the place…"
Izuku chuckled weakly as he heard that looking around at the surrounding carnage as he did so. It appeared when people with Quirks went all out there was a lot of collateral damage.
Luckily though Izuku was only responsible for some of this destruction. "Yeah… glad I'm not the one cleaning it up…"
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AN: So what do you all think? There was a lot of actions in this chapter, and a lot of other things happening, and several other characters introduced, even if only briefly. We also got to see Izuku go full Titan, which was kind of fun to write.
That said I do want to reply to some frequently asked queries here.
Some have asked why All Might is scared of Izuku? The short answer is, he's not. He doesn't fear Izuku personally, but instead worries about what he could do if he is allowed into U.A. and to become a Hero. In context All Might, ten years ago as a much younger hero, saw the worst of Izuku and the worst of what he could do. That had an effect on him, and coloured his view of him going forwards. It's not fair, nor is it entirely right, but at present All Might isn't scared of Izuku, he is just very wary around him, and pretty cautious.
Another quesiton asked is whether Izuku's Quirk has the same issue as the Attack on Titan Titanshifters. Simply put no. Izuku's power is due to a Quirk, not some blessing from a devil. He will not simply die thirteen years after unlocking his Quirk in this story, because that would be stupid in the context of this story. Izuku's Quirk is inspired by the Attack on Titan story, it is not the same though. On top of which although Izuku's Quirk is more developed than most people his age, due to the training and testing he has undergone. There is still room for growth and development. Though that does not mean he will be getting all the powers of the Titanshifters in Attack on Titan. I already have a clear idea for what I want to happen, which makes sense and fits in my mind.
As for the questions about Mount Lady and other people with gigantification Quirks. Well you'll just have to wait and see.
Thanks a lot for reading, and I hope you continue to support, review and enjoy my story!
Please check out my other stories if you have time.
Catch you all later.
Greed720.